| GO term: | sensory perception of smell |
| Synonym: | olfaction |
| Synonym: | scent perception |
| Synonym: | sense of smell |
| Synonym: | smell perception |
| GO id: | GO:0007608 |
| Definition: | The series of events required for an organism to receive an olfactory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Olfaction involves the detection of chemical composition of an organism's ambient medium by chemoreceptors. This is a neurological process. |
| Number of paths to term: | 2 |
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biological_processmulticellular organismal processsingle-multicellular organism processsystem processneurological system processsensory perceptionsensory perception of chemical stimulusdetection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception +magnetoreception by sensory perception of chemical stimulus +sensory perception of smell [GO:0007608] (1154 genes, 1167 annotations)detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of smellsensory perception of taste +biological_processsingle-organism processsingle-multicellular organism processsystem processneurological system processsensory perceptionsensory perception of chemical stimulusdetection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception +magnetoreception by sensory perception of chemical stimulus +sensory perception of smell [GO:0007608] (1154 genes, 1167 annotations)detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of smellsensory perception of taste +Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB), Gene Ontology (GO), MouseCyc |
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